Alpirsbach

Sister cities

• Neuville-sur-Saône

History

Alpirsbach developed as a market town around Alpirsbach Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded in 1095. The monastery and its holdings were ceded to the Duchy of Württemberg by the Peace of Westphalia. In 1810, the by-then Kingdom of Württemberg made Alpirsbach the seat of a district office, but three years later it was assigned to . Alpirsbach received town privileges in 1869 and was connected by railroad in 1886. The township was reassigned to the district of Freudenstadt in 1938. After World War II, it began expanding along the steep mountain slopes of the Kinzig river.

Geography

The township (Stadt) covers an area of of the Freudenstadt district, within the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Republic of Germany. Alpirsbach is physically located in the upper Kinzig valley, in the northern Black Forest, but also in the at the municipal area's western extremity. The Kinzig marks the township's lowest elevation, above sea level NN, while its highest, NN, is in the mountainous northwest. The Federally-protected nature reserve is located within Alpirsbach.